Category: longform
Essays, articles, and other original content.
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Coté Memo #042: “Is this helping at all?” and other Linkatary
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #042. Today we have 51 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. Keepin’ it smooth and level for the weekend! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives,…
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Coté Memo #040: Market cycles in infrastructure software, still more OpenStack action
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #040. Today we have 49 subscribers, so we’re +3. What happened?! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as…
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Coté Memo #039: research agenda crafting, what Docker will spend $40m on, RAX no longer for sale
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #039. Today we have 46 subscribers, so we’re +1. Dandy! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they…
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Coté Memo #038: No title, just links
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #038. Today we have 45 subscribers, so we’re +2. Fun! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they…
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Coté Memo #037: vRealize report, PaaS winnowing, big hunks of turkey
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #037. Today we have 43 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come…
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Coté Memo #036: HP buys Eucalyptus, mind-mapping-aaS
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #036. Today we have 42 subscribers, so we’re +/0. Steady as she goes! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see…
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Coté Memo #035 – Is Docker a threat to OpenStack, NPC in servers, OCP too expensive?, etc.
Meta-data I’m shipping mid-day. Let’s see what happens! Hello again, welcome to #035. Today we have 42 subscribers, so we’re +1. Fun! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives,…
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Coté Memo #034: No longer blending iPhones, Applefornia, Developer Relations & Marketing
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #034. Today we have 41 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come…
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Coté Memo #033: Taking my toys home, microservices vs. J2EE, Tex-Mex/Cajun Fusion
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #033. Today we have 41 subscribers, so we’re +1. Yay! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they…
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Coté Memo #032: when to have an executive summary
Title: Coté Memo #032: when to have an executive summary Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #32. Today we have 40 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in…
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Coté Memo #031: Avoiding Showing Up, Yet Another Private Equity in Tech Story, Cyborgs, and more #VMworld
Title: Coté Memo #031: Avoiding Showing Up, Yet Another Private Equity in Tech Story, Cyborgs, and more #VMworld Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #31. Today we have 39 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to…
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Coté Memo #030: SolidFire’s foray into OpenStack, Crowd-sourcing DevOps
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #030. Today we have 38 subscribers, so we’re +2. Nice! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they…
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Coté Memo #29: vRealize almost explained, Compuware gets bought, 1 year at 451
(I cross post my week-daily newsletter here, but also feel free to subscribe to it directly if you’d don’t want to follow CoteIndustries.com regularly.) Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #29. Today we have 36 subscribers, so we’re +3 – good job, subscribers! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If…
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Cloud == speed, pt. 2, or, Developers moving at public cloud speed driving IT transformation
WTH: How do you see the path towards the software-defined Data centre? AB: What I believe is driving this trend is that developers and organisations are looking to move extremely fast. Developers are getting used to the paradigm of going on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and getting resources immediately instead of weeks/months of provisioning time.…
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underdevpodcast: Summary We discuss thinking beyond human error as Bill starts to summarize the book Behind Human Error. It’s always helpful to look at how the system and process caused the wrong move. Also, thinking about hardware, and some nice feedback from designers. Subscribe to the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderDevPodcast Your friends @cote and @BillHiggins Hardware, what…
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Coté Memo #28: Yet another DevOps landscape, webinar tips for analysts
(I’ve had a little email newsletter for sometime. It’s fun! People like it and write to me! Rather than rely on the archiving at TinyLetter, I thought I’d post the archives here. However, feel free to subscribe to the newsletter in its proper format, email…or just read it here, whatever you like.) Meta-data Hello again,…
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Teradici’s remote workstation access product paves the way for a new type of WaaS (451 Report)
As you may recall, I write about virtual desktop stuff from time-to-time. Teradici recently launched a new workstation remote access package for engineers and CAD/CAM types. My 451 report on the topic is out, co-authored with Scott Ottaway. Teradici is an interesting company in this space as they get most of their revenue (70-75%) from…
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What VMware means when they say “hybrid cloud”
Gartner’s @cloudpundit has a great way of summing up VMware’s future-proofing problems when it comes to their strategy. tl;dr: they need to straddle two worlds, pre-cloud and post-cloud infrastructure. When VMware says “hybrid cloud,” that straddling of “legacy” IT and “real cloud” seems to be what they mean: That brings us to VMware (and many…
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Facebook ads don’t work too well for \”enterprise\” types
I am going to sound incredibly churlish here but why on earth Lionel Messi could possibly like our stuff is well beyond my imagination. Flattering though it might be. The same goes for the 20 year career short order cook who posts cat pictures, the retired person who joined Facebook last week, the nurse with…
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Facebook ads don’t work too well for \”enterprise\” types
> I am going to sound incredibly churlish here but why on earth Lionel Messi could possibly like our stuff is well beyond my imagination. Flattering though it might be. The same goes for the 20 year career short order cook who posts cat pictures, the retired person who joined Facebook last week, the nurse…
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